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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide—Release 12.1 E
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Chapter 3 Configuring the Switch for the First Time
Configuring the Switch
When you enter the setup command, current system configuration defaults are displayed in square
brackets [ ] as you move through the setup command process and are queried by the system to make
changes.
For example, you will see this display when you use the setup facility:
Configuring interface FastEtherent3/1:
Is this interface in use?: yes
Configure IP on this interface?: yes
When you use the setup command, you see this display:
Configuring interface FastEthernet4/1:
Is this interface in use?[yes]: yes
Configure IP on this interface?[yes]: yes
Configuring the Global Parameters
When you first start the setup facility or enter the setup command, you are queried by the system to
configure the global parameters, which are used for controlling system-wide settings.
To boot the switch and enter the global parameters, follow these steps:
Step 1 Connect a console terminal to the console interface on the supervisor engine, and then boot the system
to the user EXEC prompt (
Router>).
The following display appears after you boot the Catalyst 6500 series switch (depending on your
configuration, your display might not exactly match the example):
System Bootstrap, Version 6.1(2)
Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
c6k_sup2 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
rommon 1 > boot slot0:c6sup22-jsv-mz.121-5c.EX.bin
Self decompressing the image : #################################################
################################################################################
################################################################################
################################################################################
################################################################################
[OK]
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